THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE
Number 662, March 18, 2012"The simplest fact of history and human nature is thatpeople really don't play well in groups.... any formallystructured group eventuallyinvariablybegins tobehave like a living organism, existing for its own ends."

Government is a broker in pillage, and every election
is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
H.L. Mencken

Just a quick review of the bidding:

Under President Obama's watch:

Eric Holder's Justice Department Helped the Sinaloa Cartel launder
several billion (that's ten to the ninth in case you use different
numbering system than most Yanks do.) dollars. Also they
preferentially allowed weapons to be smuggled to this crew under
Operation Fast and Furious. Please note that the Mexican drug cartels
are beginning to indicate who they would prefer to see winning the
July national elections in Mexico.

Under Eric Holder, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives ran Operation Fast and Furious, disregarding the negative
results of Operation Gunrunner carried out by the Bush
Administration. Please note that in Gunrunner Mexican law enforcement
was kept in the loop and an effort was made to keep track of the
weapons involved. Gunrunner was stopped when it was demonstrated that
the weapons could not be properly tracked. On the other hand the plan
in Fast and Furious was to see at what crime scenes the weapons
involved turned up (in plain English, where they were dropped after a
murder).

Under the most innocent circumstances Holder failed to supervise his
subordinates and permitted them to carry out an operation that
approaches being the Platonic archetype for dumbfuckery without his
bosses knowledge. At the very worst, acting on President Obama's
orders the Attorney General ordered the ATFE to permit weapons into
the hands of mass murderers destabilizing the government of a
friendly nation so as to gin up evidence to trash the American
people's right to keep and bear arms.

The Second Amendment is only part of the Bill of Rights (albeit an
amazingly important one). With recent restrictions on the right to
assemble to petition the redress of grievances and trying to get
religious institutions to fund activities they find sinful (sort of
like Seleucids trying to turn the Temple in Jerusalem into a temple
to Zeus) the Administration has essentially thrown out the First
Amendment. Please note that on the first abomination against the
Constitution a large number of Republicans were involved.

Republicans were also involved in the passage of NDAA 2012 which
includes language authorizing the President to order the detention of
anybody anywhere without charges for as long as they please thus
throwing out the Fourth through Eighth Amendments plus the right of
habeas corpus in the main body of the Constitution.

The Attorney General has also claimed the right of the President to
order the execution of anyone anywhere without trial or any respect
of rights. While I won't dispute the catch-as-catch-can nature of
killing enemy soldiers and leaders in wartime, Mr. Holder is not
arguing this point. He is arguing in favor of throwing out the rights
of the accused of anyone the President just doesn't particularly like.

Finally, the Secretary of Defense has claimed that the President does
not need a declaration of war or any other authorization by Congress
to commit American forces to combat. Rather he claims he only needs
license from the UN or NATO to send our nation to war. We are not
talking about carrying out obligations under treaty (for example,
helping South Korea fight off a North Korean invasion if the truce
there fails), but the invasion of other nations who are not
committing acts of invasion against the US or any of its allies.
Please note that this could be interpreted as a surrender of American
sovereignty to supernational bodies and the reduction of the US to a
vassal state of a world state.

There are many issues that we can and do disagree with the current
administration (and its predecessor and likely successor) and to be
honest most of these come under the aegis of honest men reasonably
disagreeing. However, The above "review of the bidding" outlines a
steady discarding of the rights and liberties guaranteed under the
U.S. Constitution. Please note that the Republicans have been just as
eager as the Democrats in this destruction of the American people's
freedom.